Scottish Executive

Alcohol Misuse

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) alcohol-related deaths and (b) registered alcoholics there have been in each of the last four years.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: There is no universally accepted definition of an alcohol-related death. The following information relates to deaths certified as due to alcoholic liver disease, alcoholic cardiomyopathy and mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol.

  Deaths Due to Alcoholic Liver Disease, Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy and Mental and Behavioural Disorders Due to Alcohol in 1998-2001

  


Year 
  

Number 
  



1998 
  

912 
  



1999 
  

1,013 
  



2000 
  

1,129 
  



2001 
  

1,220 
  



  Source: General Register Office for Scotland.

  Notes:

  Alcohol-related conditions are defined using the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases 9th and 10th Revisions (ICD9 and ICD10).

  Information on the number of registered alcoholics is not held centrally.

Census

Michael Russell (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider changes to legislation to allow access to census records after 80 years rather than 100 years.

Hugh Henry: The Executive has no plans to consider changes to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to reduce from its present 100 years the exemption applying to access to census records relating to individuals. The provisions in the act reflect undertakings given to individuals responding to successive censuses that their individual details would remain confidential. The Executive recognises the interest among family historians in gaining access to the returns. However, it is also mindful of the concerns of those who respond to the census regarding confidentiality and of the need to address these concerns so as to ensure reliability and completeness of census coverage. The Executive’s view is that the recent act reflects the most satisfactory balance of these interests.

Dental Health

Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in negotiating with private dental practices in Caithness to support provision of NHS dental services.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: NHS Highland is currently in discussion with an independent dental practice in the Caithness area regarding possible provision of NHS dental services.

Dental Health

Mr David Davidson (North-East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will facilitate the establishment of a postgraduate dental teaching institute in the Grampian NHS Board area to attract pre-registration dentists.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: Grampian is already in the process of improving its provision of postgraduate dental teaching facilities with the development of space within the Westburn Centre as a postgraduate dental centre for Grampian.

  The Scottish Executive, through NHS Education Scotland, have been reviewing all postgraduate dental facilities in Scotland and these are being expanded to support increased postgraduate education and training for all members of the dental team. A further example is the development of a £2.8 million postgraduate dental centre in Tayside which has a remit for the whole of Scotland.

Disability Discrimination Act 1995

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how it is monitoring compliance by NHS trusts with provisions under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Malcolm Chisholm: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is currently completing a second round of visits to NHS trusts in connection with the generic clinical governance standards, which include issues relating to access to services by those with special requirements. It will shortly be consulting on a revised set of standards that will make specific reference to NHS trusts demonstrating compliance with the obligations and duties of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Disability Discrimination Act 1995

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether disabled people will be involved in the monitoring process of the implementation by the NHS of provisions under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Malcolm Chisholm: Patients and members of the public are involved at every stage of the development and monitoring of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland’s generic clinical governance standards, which include issues relating to access to services by those with special requirements.

Emergency Planning

Colin Campbell (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what stocks it has of antidotes against the effects of chemical, biological or radiological attacks.

Malcolm Chisholm: Contingency plans exist to deal with chemical, biological or radiological incidents whether caused naturally, by accident or as a result of an act of terrorism. Working closely with other UK Health Departments, strategic supplies of antidotes to deal with the possible effects of such incidents have been stockpiled throughout the UK, including in Scotland. For security reasons, it is UK policy not to disclose details of these antidotes or their location.

Europe

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what role it plays in the Assembly of European Regions.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Executive is not a member of the Assembly of European Regions.

  The Executive pursues Scottish interests as a member of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions and is an active participant in both the group of Regions with Legislative Powers and the Committee of the Regions. The Executive is also represented in the UK delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.

Ferry Services

Mr Duncan Hamilton (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive why there is no relief vessel for the Gourock to Dunoon ferry route when a vessel breaks down.

Lewis Macdonald: The question relates to an operational matter for Caledonian MacBrayne Limited and should therefore be addressed to the Managing Director of the company.

Fire Service

Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place a copy of its submission to the Bain inquiry into the fire service in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Hugh Henry: The Scottish Executive’s evidence to the Bain Review, like that of the other Devolved Administrations, was included in the evidence submitted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The review team made it clear from the outset that evidence submitted to it would be on a confidential basis but a paper entitled Reforming Our Public Services: Principles Into Practice – The Fire Service , which was submitted to the review team, is available on the ODPM website. The web address is http://www.safety.odpm.gov.uk/fire/dispute/index.htm

Fire Service

Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place copies of all responses to The Scottish Fire Service of the Future in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Hugh Henry: We can only arrange to place copies of responses in the Parliament’s Reference Centre where consent has been given for the response to be made public. No such consent was sought or given in relation to this consultation document. However, we will write to those who responded and ask if they would be content to have their responses placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre and I will confirm when these are available.

Fire Service

Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary question to question S1O-6265 by Mr Jim Wallace on 23 January 2003 ( Official Report , c 17397), what the outdated practices in the fire service are.

Hugh Henry: In response to the supplementary question, the Deputy First Minister mentioned practices such as full-time firefighters not being allowed to work on the same crew as part-time firefighters and the rigid shift system. There are other examples such as the Fire Brigades Union ban on voluntary overtime and objections to sharing control rooms with other emergency services.

Fisheries

Richard Lochhead (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought advice from Her Majesty's Government about whether the reallocation of fishing opportunities equivalent to deducted fishing opportunities, referred to in Article 23(4) of EU Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002, could result in the member state receiving the reallocation gaining fishing opportunities for stocks in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) areas other than in ICES areas that had been deducted from the member state that had exceeded its fishing opportunities.

Ross Finnie: A reallocation of fishing opportunities between member states allowed for by the provisions of Article 23 Paragraph 4 of EU Council Regulation (EC) 2371/2002 can only be decided once the Commission has considered the likely impact of the reallocation on the interests of the member states involved and on the conservation of resources. Further, any decision must be taken by the Commission in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 4 and Article 7 of Decision (EC) 468/1999. This makes it unlikely that such an eventuality could occur except in the most exceptional of circumstances.

Fisheries

Mr David Davidson (North-East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how the additional £3 million package of support for peripheral fishing communities will be allocated and whether there will be any restrictions on how it can be applied.

Ross Finnie: The £3.2 million package announced on 3 February (Scottish Executive Press Release SEen317/2003) represented the latest round of awards from the Scottish Executive under the EU Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) structural fund programmes, which cover the period 2000-06. Awards are allocated to individual grant recipients through the competitive schemes and arrangements that operate under the programmes. The scope of each scheme is determined by the terms of the FIFG regulation and reflected in scheme guidance material.

  A list of the projects that were awarded assistance, summarising details of recipients, project descriptions and the location of the beneficiaries is available from the Executive, as set out in the press release.

General Agreement on Trade in Services

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32580 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2003, when information will be available on what the specific benefits of liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services have been, or are expected to be, to the health sector.

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32592 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2003, when information will be available on what adverse effects on trade in services in health need to be reduced or eliminated to provide effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive is continuing to work closely with the Department of Trade and Industry and other UK Government Departments in respect of the current General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations. The UK negotiates in the World Trade Organisation as part of the European Community. The Commission has now submitted to the Council and the European Parliament the EU draft offer. This does not propose commitments in the health sector. Their proposals will be discussed with the Scottish Executive as part of the Department of Trade and Industry’s assessment process.

General Agreement on Trade in Services

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32597 by Cathy Jamieson on 3 January 2003, how the statement that "WTO members have the right to choose in which sectors and to what extent they want to make commitments" is consistent with the answer to question S1W-32596 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003 which indicated that no assessment had been made of the legal implications of the BetterCare Group Ltd ruling on the impact and operation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

Cathy Jamieson: School level state education will be exempt from any pressure to privatise its provision under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

General Register Office for Scotland

Michael Russell (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the online search costs charged by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) for the information it makes available on the internet with a view to replacing the current charging system with a charge for a single day’s unrestricted access.

Hugh Henry: The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) keeps its charges under regular review, and has recently set up a user group consisting of customers of its ScotlandsPeople internet site and Scotland Online, the contractors who run the site on its behalf, to advise it on the future development of the site. Following discussion in the user group, GROS plans to seek the approval of the Parliament to extend the length of an online search session paid for on the site from the 24 hours laid down in the current Statutory Instrument to 48 hours. In the longer term, GROS plans a wider review of the site’s charging structure with the aim of achieving discounted and less restricted access for heavy users of the site, or to allow institutions such as libraries to give access to the site through their facilities to users who may not have their own internet access or credit cards.

Health

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many confirmed cases of meningococcal infection there have been in each NHS board area in each of the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The following table gives details of cases of invasive meningococcal infection known to the Scottish Meningococcal and Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, grouped according to the NHS board area in which the patient was first diagnosed.

  


Confirmed Cases of Meningococcal Disease 1998 to 2002 by 
  NHS Board 
  

1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

8 
  

30 
  

29 
  

15 
  

14 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

32 
  

32 
  

22 
  

16 
  

16 
  



Borders 
  

3 
  

11 
  

5 
  

4 
  

4 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

5 
  

7 
  

8 
  

12 
  

2 
  



Fife 
  

23 
  

26 
  

23 
  

22 
  

14 
  



Forth Valley 
  

26 
  

18 
  

11 
  

18 
  

7 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

53 
  

56 
  

81 
  

57 
  

43 
  



Grampian 
  

20 
  

20 
  

17 
  

6 
  

14 
  



Highland 
  

22 
  

8 
  

17 
  

11 
  

5 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

58 
  

45 
  

59 
  

40 
  

34 
  



Lothian 
  

44 
  

70 
  

43 
  

48 
  

34 
  



Orkney 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  



Shetland 
  

1 
  

6 
  

2 
  

1 
  

0 
  



Tayside 
  

19 
  

21 
  

32 
  

19 
  

7 
  



Western Isles 
  

1 
  

0 
  

6 
  

2 
  

1 
  



All Boards 
  

315 
  

350 
  

355 
  

271 
  

196

Health

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to encourage NHS boards to allow patients access to their own records.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Chief Executive, NHS Scotland, has written to the Chief Executives of all NHS trusts and boards to remind them of their obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 to make available medical records to patients.

Health

Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS trusts are not on target to completely comply with the interim technical requirements on decontamination processes by March 2003 as recommended in the Glennie framework on decontamination services and provision.

Malcolm Chisholm: It is expected that all sites will comply with the interim technical requirements.

  However, one of the requirements for interim compliance is the installation and commissioning of compliant washer disinfectors. The demand for washer disinfectors currently exceeds the supply available on a UK basis and as a result it is unlikely that all sites that require new equipment will have them installed and commissioned by 31 March 2003. The procurement of the equipment is being co-ordinated centrally by Scottish Health care Supplies. In the circumstances it is likely that an extension of up to two months to the March 2003 deadline will be given to those sites currently awaiting equipment.

Health

Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive which specialities in each NHS trust are currently using disposable clinical equipment in order to comply with the technical requirements on decontamination processes set out in the Glennie framework on decontamination services and provision.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Glennie framework looked at and built upon the best practice standards that exist for the decontamination of re-usable medical devices. As such no technical requirements have been set which stipulate the use of disposable clinical equipment.

  However, in a move to further reduce the theoretical risk of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease infection from hospital procedures, the department, at the beginning of 2001, introduced single use instruments for tonsillectomies.

Health

Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the recommendations made in the Glennie framework on decontamination services and provision that the cleaning of hospital equipment should be moved to central sterile service departments.

Malcolm Chisholm: At present there are no plans to review the recommendations made in the Glennie framework.

Health

Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many medical procedures have been (a) cancelled in advance and (b) aborted unexpectedly due to problems with the sterilisation of clinical equipment in each year since 2001, broken down by NHS trust.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is not held centrally.

  However, the Glennie Group and the department have worked closely with NHSScotland to achieve technical compliance and only a small number of instances of cancelled operations have been reported to date.

Health Promotion

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to improve heart disease rates in Glasgow in light of the prediction by doctors at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow that heart disease rates in the area are expected to increase by a third over the next 20 years.

Malcolm Chisholm: Improving Scotland’s health is our most important challenge. Diseases such as coronary heart disease (CHD) are increasingly preventable by improvements in physical activity and diet and reductions in smoking. We are taking a comprehensive approach to health improvement that draws together activity across the whole range of the Executive’s activity. Prevention is an integral part of our CHD and Stroke Strategy, and local cardiac services Managed Clinical Networks will be expected to develop prevention strategies which are in line with our health promotion framework.

Health Promotion

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £40 million allocated for tackling heart disease will be granted to Greater Glasgow NHS Board.

Malcolm Chisholm: The additional £40 million which is being made available over the next three financial years covers implementation of the whole of our coronary heart disease (CHD) and Stroke Strategy. NHS Greater Glasgow will receive support for its cardiac services Managed Clinical Network. It also has the opportunity to submit bids for initiatives which could be funded after meeting the costs of Managed Clinical Networks to support this strategy nationally and developing a national CHD database.

Historic Scotland

Colin Campbell (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33145 by Dr Elaine Murray on 22 January 2003, which specific reasons for withholding information on the grounds of confidentiality referred to in paragraphs 14 and 15 of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information apply to information pertaining to each of the six separate sums given in the answer to question S1W-32521 on 3 January 2003.

Dr Elaine Murray: The information was withheld under Paragraph 13 of Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information (third party’s commercial confidences). Under this exemption information is exempt from disclosure if its release would disadvantage the person to whom it relates in the conduct of their lawful business, commercial, financial or professional affairs.

Prison Service

Michael Matheson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32358 by Hugh Henry on 17 January 2003, what the total delegated budget has been for each prison and young offenders institution in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 2000-01, (e) 2001-02 and (f) 2002-03 to date and what the expenditure outturn has been in each case.

Mr Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  The available information is as shown in the following table.

  


Establishment 
  

2000-01 
  

2001-02 
  

2002-03 
  



Budget
(£ million) 
  

Under/(Over) Spend (£ million) 
  

Budget
(£ million) 
  

Under/(Over) Spend (£ million) 
  

Budget
(£ million) 
  



HM Prison Aberdeen 
  

5.8 
  

0.1 
  

6.1 
  

- 
  

5.9 
  



HM Prison Barlinnie 
  

24.5 
  

0.6 
  

24.1 
  

(0.2) 
  

24.2 
  



HM Prison Castle Huntly 
  

3.3 
  

0.1 
  

3.1 
  

- 
  

3.0 
  



HM Prison and YOI Cornton Vale 
  

8.1 
  

(0.3) 
  

8.5 
  

0.2 
  

9.2 
  



HM Prison and YOI Dumfries 
  

5.7 
  

- 
  

6.0 
  

0.1 
  

5.3 
  



HM Prison Dungavel 
  

0.8 
  

(0.1) 
  

- 
  

- 
  
 



HM Prison Edinburgh 
  

18.1 
  

0.2 
  

18.6 
  

(0.1) 
  

18.5 
  



HM Prison and YOI Glenochil 
  

16.7 
  

(0.2) 
  

17.6 
  

0.3 
  

16.9 
  



HM Prison Greenock 
  

6.8 
  

(0.1) 
  

7.4 
  

0.2 
  

6.9 
  



HM Prison Inverness 
  

3.9 
  

0.1 
  

3.9 
  

- 
  

4.1 
  



HM Prison Kilmarnock 
  

13.0 
  

0.4 
  

13.2 
  

0.6 
  

13.2 
  



HM Remand Institution Longriggend 
  

0.1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  
 



HM Prison Low Moss 
  

6.5 
  

0.1 
  

7.0 
  

0.1 
  

6.8 
  



HM Prison Noranside 
  

3.1 
  

(0.1) 
  

2.8 
  

- 
  

2.8 
  



HM Prison Penninghame 
  

0.3 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  
 



HM Prison Perth 
  

16.9 
  

0.4 
  

15.5 
  

0.2 
  

16.5 
  



HM Prison Peterhead 
  

8.7 
  

0.3 
  

9.0 
  

0.3 
  

8.7 
  



HM YOI Polmont 
  

12.8 
  

(0.1) 
  

13.2 
  

(0.5) 
  

12.8 
  



HM Prison Shotts 
  

17.4 
  

0.2 
  

16.3 
  

0.8 
  

16.9 
  



  Notes:

  1. The table is based on delegated budgets for each of these years.

  2. Projected spend for 2002-03 is currently in line with budgets allocated.

  3. Budget details are no longer retained on the financial system for 1999-2000 and prior years.

Sewel Motion

Roseanna Cunningham (Perth) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32798 by Patricia Ferguson on 14 January 2003, what aspects of the (a) Sexual Offences and (b) Local Government bills currently before the UK Parliament will require a Sewel motion.

Patricia Ferguson: Before seeking a Sewel motion in relation to a UK bill, it is the Executive’s practice to deposit a memorandum in the Parliament’s Reference Centre, explaining the purpose and effect of the relevant provisions in the bill which relate to devolved matters.

  In relation to the Local Government Bill, a memorandum setting out the information requested is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 26249). A memorandum in relation to the Sexual Offences Bill will be deposited in the Parliament’s Reference Centre shortly.

Smoking

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many smoking-related deaths there have been and how many people smoked regularly in each age group in each of the last four years.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: It is not possible to give precise figures on premature deaths resulting from tobacco use. However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke.

  Information on the percentage of people smoking in recent years is provided in the table. Figures for the year 2002 are not currently available.

  Percentage of Adults Smoking by Age Group

  


Age Years 
  

1999-2000 
  

2001 
  



16-34 
  

34.6% 
  

33.2% 
  



35-44 
  

33.0% 
  

32.8% 
  



45-59 
  

32.0% 
  

30.6% 
  



60 and over 
  

21.0% 
  

19.4% 
  



All 
  

29.8% 
  

28.4% 
  



  Source: Scottish Household Survey.

Student Finance

Mr Kenneth Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give details of any changes to the rates of student support for further and higher education students that will apply for the academic year 2003-04.

Iain Gray: I am delighted to announce the new rates of support for students in further and higher education for academic year 2003-04. I am today placing in the Parliament’s Reference Centre details of the rates of those loans, bursaries and grants, which will be available to eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students in full-time higher education (Bib. number 26394).

  A general uprating factor of 2.4%, in line with inflation, will be applied to the existing schemes of support in 2003-04, thus maintaining their value in real terms. We are also increasing by the same factor the standard rates of tuition fee payments made to institutions on behalf of eligible students by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.

  This increase is consistent with that announced by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on 19 December 2002 for English and Welsh domiciled students.

  The Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) has also agreed to maintain the alignment between the further and higher education sectors by, where appropriate, uprating the support available to further education students by 2.4%.

Water Supply

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33166 by Ross Finnie on 27 January 2003, whether it expects the standard for lead set in the EC drinking water directive to be met by the target date of December 2003.

Ross Finnie: The work being undertaken by Scottish Water, referred to in the answer given to question S1W-33166, is designed to ensure compliance with the Drinking Water Directive by 25 December 2003.

  Inevitably, there will still be occasional breaches of the lead standard. In the event of a lead failure, Scottish Water will be required to show that lead pipes in its own ownership did not cause the failure. Scottish Water will also be required to notify the occupier, and the owner, of the steps that they should take to avoid the contamination or minimise the risk.

  In the event of the failure being in a public building, such as a school, hospital or restaurant, new regulations will apply that will require the building owner to rectify the fault. The Executive will consult on the detail of the new regulations.

Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer what the installation cost was of each window in the MSP block west elevation of the new Parliament building at Holyrood under the (a) Flour City contract and (b) current contract.

Sir David Steel: It is not possible to provide window installation costs only, as both contracts in question stipulated supply and installation. The Convener of the Holyrood Project Team has informed me that different models of bay windows are involved but, on average, the costs from the tender bids for supply and installation of bay windows on the west elevation of the MSP block were as follows:

  (a) Flour City: £5,633 per window (excl VAT)

  (b) Current Contract: £17,174 per window (excl VAT).